Baljit Singh Chadha, Canada's Nut King Entrepreneur : continue

Award & Financial support to Foundation

• Mr. Chadha underwrote and guaranteed fifty percent of the $6000,000 budget of the " Art of Sikh Kingdom", a much praised exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Musuem in Toronto during 2000.
  
  
• He proposed and gave financial support for a course on Sikh Studies, now running at McGill University, Montreal, with an enrolment of 22 students (60% non-Sikhs) as of January, 2002. Prof. Manjit Singh, a Sikh Chaplain at McGill, teaches the undergraduate course, "Introduction to Sikhism". Our visitor has also started talking to the University of Toronto about their establishing a course in Sikhism.
  
  
• He established Canadian Sikh Council (CSC) in 2001 to look after various issues and problems which face the Sikh community from time to time. Within a short period, its achievements have been quite impressive. CSC directors successfully represented the case of a Sikh boy who wears a patka but was denied admission to a private school in Quebec, specifically because of his Sikhi Roop. With CSC assistance, a 14 year old Amritdhari boy, Gurbaj Singh from Montreal, won the case in court on his right to wear a small kirpan to his school.
  
  

• The Centennial Foundation was formed in 1997 in commemoration of the centenary of Sikh settlement in Canada. Every year, the Centennial honors individuals who have truly excelled in all walks of life. The 2001 award for philanthropy was given to S. Baljit Singh Chadha.

  Besides these honors, there have been numerous institutions and societies such as Sikh Community of Montreal,(2000), Hellenic Community of Montreal (2000), International Punjabi Society, New York (2000), Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2000), City of Montreal (1998), National Association of Canadians with Origins in Canada, and India-Canada Association of Montreal (1997), which have received financial support from him and have honored him in the year given in brackets.

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